11-24-2011, 06:58 PM
Quote:..or tactics, or was it always a one-way interaction (barbarians copying Greeks on sight)?
We know they invented the "Thracian" and "Phrygian" helmets,
Most of the helmet types worn by the Greeks were "invented" in Greece proper, not just this one kind.
Quote:as well as the kopis (sounds eerily similar to khopesh... maybe the Egyptians copied them too?),
The origin of the kopis is a point of contention, since it seems to have appeared very early in Greece, Italy, and Spain. I'm not quite sure what the consensus is now on its origin, but Greece is as likely as the other two regions.
Quote:greaves,
Metal greaves were invented in Bronze Age Central Europe and seem to have spread southward in the Iron Age.
As others have stated in this thread, the Greeks adopted many elements of foreign armour (mainly Celtic, Iranian, and Italic) in the Hellenistic period. One major exception is the pelte, adopted from the Thracians already in the Classical period. For the most part, however, Greek warfare prior to the 4th c. BC was confined to the Aegean, with occasional exceptional episodes elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean, so Greek soldiers rarely had contact with foreign enemies bearing entirely different arms in any large numbers.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
